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ATLAS’s upgraded support structure successfully integrated at CERN

The ATLAS ITk outer cylinder under construction at Berkeley Lab in 2023. Credit: Thor Swift, Berkeley Lab

Berkeley Lab hosts 2025 ‘Physics in and Through Cosmology’ Workshop

Group photo of 2025 'Physics in and Through Cosmology' Workshop participants. Credit: Thor Swift, Berkeley Lab

Studying Gas Production in REBCO-Based Superconducting Magnets for Future Fusion Reactors

Christopher Reis, a graduate student in ATAP's Superconducting Magnet Program, operates an ion beam scanning electron microscope to study the irradiated microstructures of REBCO-based superconductors. (Credit: Berkeley Lab ATAP Division)

Combining Numerical Simulation Techniques Improves Laser-Plasma Accelerator Modeling

Davide Terzani and Carlo Benedetti from ATAP's BELLA Center discuss how to initialize a time-averaged ponderomotive approximation simulation in a boosted frame. (Credit: Matt Fullmer, Berkeley Lab)

GRETA to Open a New Eye on the Nucleus

A close-up view of the GRETA interior. Silver-grey modules are arranged in a flower-like configuration around a small central opening. and surrounded by metallic housing with circular ports.

Diagnostic Tool Sheds New Light on Instabilities in High-Power Lasers

Finn Kohrell and Jeroen van Tilborg discuss the laser's optical stretcher, a part of the laser system that controls the separation (stretching) and re-compression of different wavelength components of the laser pulse, which are all crucial for laser amplification and pulse envelope shaping. (Credit: Matthew Fullmer, Berkeley Lab)

A New Method for Measuring Inter-Tape Resistance in Superconducting Cables

Reed Teyber and Chet Spencer work on the experimental setup for measuring inter-tape contact resistance in REBCO-based superconducting cables. (Credit: Matthew Fullmer, Berkeley Lab)

Complete 3D Simulations of Supernovae

Simulation of the explosion of a 40 solar mass star, 1.7 seconds after collapse. The rendered entropy shows regions heated by the expanding shock wave and/or neutrino heating. The development of turbulent convection and global asymmetry facilitate a successful explosion. (Credit: T. Wang, UC Berkeley)

New Technique Sheds Light on Chemistry at the Bottom of the Periodic Table

A team led by Jacklyn Gates (left) and Jennifer Pore used FIONA to make the first direct measurement of molecules containing nobelium. Credit: Marilyn Sargent, Berkeley Lab

NSD Hosts the 22nd Annual Exotic Beam Summer School

EBSS2025 participants (Credit: Robinson Kuntz, Berkeley Lab)

New Angles on Jet Scattering in the Quark-Gluon Plasma at RHIC and the LHC

An artistic representation of a liquidlike fireball of "quark-gluon plasma" (QGP) created in a collision of two gold ions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). This collision has also produced a correlated spray of particles (a "jet") back-to-back with a photon (wavy purple line). Scientists from RHIC's STAR Collaboration showed that interactions of the jet particles cause the QGP to splash sideways, like the wake behind a power boat, enabling them to measure properties of the plasma. (Valerie A. Lentz/Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Magnets Could Unlock a New Way to Detect Gravitational Waves

Gravitational waves (blue lines) that pass through a magnet (orange) will cause it to oscillate, thereby generating an oscillating magnetic field that could be detected. In this way, large magnets can operate as Weber Bars. Image Credit: Nick Rodd, Berkeley Lab

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